Music that has good cymbals

Try Thelonius Monk's Monk's Music. It's not the most exiting cymbal sound, but Art Blakey uses the high-hat to keep an amazingly rock steady 4/4 time while playing a completely a-rythmic solo around it. Great drumming.

Patricia Barber - Nardis

Try Patricia Barber's Nardis. I think it's on the Cafe Blue CD. There are 3 cymbals on this cut from what I can tell at varying volumes.

The Bill Evans Trio recommendation is a very good one.

Ramsey Lewis & Nancy Wilson on "Meant To Be" will fit the bill in every way...I use it for the same purpose as I evaluate various tubes. Sonics & music are VERY good. The cymbals 'sparkle'. Amazon.com or half.com will have used copies cheap.

So I picked up Monk's Monk (remastered), JVC's XRCD of Bill Evan's Trio was hard to track down but was able to order a used copy, the Patricia Barber red book Cafe Blue disk, and the Manu Katche red book Neighborhood CD...

Some of your recommendations I already have... I'll be looking into the others later this week... If you have any others, by all means...

Thanks big time!